Yuri Gagarin

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Yuri Gagarin

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Honorary titles:
Hero of the Soviet Union (April 14,
1961), Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
(April 14, 1961), Honorary Radio
Operator (1962). Honored Master of
Sports of the USSR (running, 1961).

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Honorary citizen of cities:
• Yuri Gagarin is an honorary citizen of many Russian cities and a number of
foreign ones.
• Kaluga (1961), Lyubertsy (posthumously, 1987), Novocherkassk, Sumgait,
Smolensk, Vinnytsia, Novozybkovo and Novozybkovsky district of the
Bryansk region (1966), Sevastopol, Saratov (1967), Leninsk (now
Baikonur, posthumously, 1977) — all USSR, as well as Sofia, Pernik
(1966), Burgas (1966)- all UXO, Athens (Greece), Famagusta. Limassol
(Cyprus), Saint-Denis, Puteaux (1963, France), Trencianska Teplice,
Martin (1961, Czechoslovakia).
• Yuri Gagarin received for eternal storage the golden keys to the gates of
the cities of Cairo and Alexandria (1962, Egypt).